Government Technology

Formation of Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization

AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, today announced its official formation and dedication to promulgating universally adopted standards and guidelines for anti-malware testing. The ...
PC Magazine

How We Collect Malware for Hands-On Antivirus Testing

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...
PCMag on MSN

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Comprehensive remote management of antivirus installations ...
Dark Reading

Using Malware In Penetration Testing

Huh? That's the exact reaction I had when I first read the title for the blog entry "Pentest Evolution: Malware Under Control."The blog is by Gunter Ollmann and covers pen-testing from a historical ...
Dark Reading

Spirent Adds Support For Malware Testing With Realistic Threat Assessment

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirent Communications, a leader in testing networks, services and devices, today announced the release of malware testing capabilities on Spirent Studio. With the ...
Network World

Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing

Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), which tests anti-malware products for effectiveness in protection, for the first time included the free version of the Malwarebytes software in the labs’ competitive ...
Ars Technica

Lawyers, malware, and money: The antivirus market’s nasty fight over Cylance

Last November, a systems engineer at a large company was evaluating security software products when he discovered something suspicious. One of the vendors had provided a set of malware samples to test ...